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The snout

Please consider referencing:

Romain Vullo, Ronan Allain, and Lionel Cavin. Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (4), 2016: 825-828 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00284.2016

Semi-protected edit request on 17 August 2024

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Hello. May this artwork I created of Spinosaurus’s aquatic environment and contemporary animals be added to the paleoenviromnent section of the Spinosaurus page please? A lot of aquatic animals Spinosaurus lived with are shown, though there are also some speculative ones that lived with it, such as the giant leeches. They are minor however. So…

File:The Pharaoh’s Aquarium.jpg Mikailodon (talk) 22:26, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

:File:Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Tlx|Edit semi-protected}} template. M.Bitton (talk) 23:18, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

:@Mikailodon It is probably better to discuss in WP:DINOART. You need to review image there and after getting agreement it is possible to put image in article. I will bring it up there. Ta-tea-two-te-to (talk) 14:30, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

::Thanks a lot! Mikailodon (talk) 10:26, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 January 2025

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change the sentence "A potential specimen tentatively referred to as cf. Spinosaurus has been found in the Campanian Quseir Formation of Egypt, but no detailed description of the specimen was provided.{{Cite journal|journal=Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=305–323 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00181 |year=2001 |last1=Churcher |first1=C. S |title=A new species of Protopterus and a revision of Ceratodus humei (Dipnoi: Ceratodontiformes) from the Late Cretaceous Mut Formation of eastern Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt |last2=De Iuliis |first2=G |bibcode=2001Palgy..44..305C |doi-access=free }}{{cite book|last1=Augustin|first1=F.J.|last2=Hartung|first2=J.|last3=Kampouridis|first3=P.|editor1=Hamimi, Z.|editor2=Khozyem, H.|editor3=Adatte, T.|editor4=Nader, Fadi H.|editor5=Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.|editor6=Zobba, Mohamed K.|editor7=Atfy, Haytham El|year=2023|chapter=Dinosaur Faunas of Egypt—The Terrestrial Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Record|title=The Phanerozoic Geology and Natural Resources of Egypt|pages=253–284|series=Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation|publisher=Springer, Cham|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95637-0_9|isbn=978-3-030-95636-3}}" to the sentence "A specimen tentatively referred to as cf. Spinosaurus has been found in the Campanian Quseir Formation of Egypt, but no detailed description of the specimen was provided and now reclassified as Theropoda indet.{{Cite journal|journal=Palaeontology |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=305–323 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00181 |year=2001 |last1=Churcher |first1=C. S |title=A new species of Protopterus and a revision of Ceratodus humei (Dipnoi: Ceratodontiformes) from the Late Cretaceous Mut Formation of eastern Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt |last2=De Iuliis |first2=G |bibcode=2001Palgy..44..305C |doi-access=free }}{{cite book|last1=Augustin|first1=F.J.|last2=Hartung|first2=J.|last3=Kampouridis|first3=P.|editor1=Hamimi, Z.|editor2=Khozyem, H.|editor3=Adatte, T.|editor4=Nader, Fadi H.|editor5=Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.|editor6=Zobba, Mohamed K.|editor7=Atfy, Haytham El|year=2023|chapter=Dinosaur Faunas of Egypt—The Terrestrial Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Record|title=The Phanerozoic Geology and Natural Resources of Egypt|pages=253–284|series=Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation|publisher=Springer, Cham|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-95637-0_9|isbn=978-3-030-95636-3}}"

Reason: reread the 2023 study and the specimen is listed within the section Theropoda indet., so it could not represent Spinosaurus 140.254.77.156 (talk) 16:35, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

:Accepted the request, and it is now done. Junsik1223 (talk) 14:14, 18 January 2025 (UTC)